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Kretzschmaria

Notes

Large fruiting bodies containing many individual perithecia, usually flattened across the host surface, but quite irregular in shape, either comprising large numbers of closely packed, short-cylindric structures, or irregular overlapping plates. Spores usually large.
Two species have been reported from New Zealand, earlier reports of the Northern Hemisphere K. deusta were probably incorrect.

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 Kretzschmaria pavimentosa
 Kretzschmaria zelandica